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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1921
Page
6
Ad copy details a Cross Pullman bag for women in Rubberized silk with mirror, hair brush, comb, nail and tooth brushes and toilet accessories. Includes a hand carved boudoir lamp with parchment shade and gold polychrome finish. Prices listed.
Book design features black grained patent leather with lambskin lining and a gold plated medallion in center. Closed size 9 by 64 inches, initials engraved extra, price 28 dollars with 1.40 dollars tax.
Washington action on December 18 reports Secretary of Labor Davis ordering fines to the statutory limit against the British Cunard steamship line. He asked the State Department to press the British government over what he calls a bold knowing attempt to violate immigration law for meager profits or to discredit U.S. policy.
The Aquitania arrived in New York on December 10 with 300 Hungarian immigrants, despite the Hungary quota being exhausted as of July 1922. Attorney General Daugherty was asked for a legal opinion on action amid government disputes with steamship lines over immigration limits and enforcement.
A Belgrade despatch reports Tirana fallen to an agitator named Hirdochey whose past is unknown. Former government members try to reorganize at Elbassan as Ahmed Bey commands the Mirdites to move on Tirana.
The Boston Sunday Post Magazine Christmas number will print complete tales including Where the Heart Is by Will Irwin The Name and the Game by Fannie Hurst and Do Your Christmas Shopping Late by William Almon Wolf in its holiday issue.
On New Year’s Day in New York City Miss Alice R. Mulvey of Westchester New York will wed Alexander D. Sutherland ex service man and Phillips Academy trainer who after naval service injuries met her while visiting wounded servicemen in a New York hospital during the war
The wage committee of the American Steamship Owners' Association met in New York to consider reducing pay for workers in the American Merchant Marine. Captain Eugene T. O'Donnell of the city chairs the committee. While the exact amount is undecided, a basis may reflect British wage cuts of 30 percent starting in 1922, influencing American plans though seamen here are not to face such drastic cuts.
The article discusses Edward Johnson of Woburn praising Boston as sketched in 1650 in the Wonder-Working Providence, contrasting with later views from 1663 by John Josselyn. It highlights Boston’s ships, wharves, brick and slate buildings, and bustling streets, plus Thomas Shepard’s escape from England and arrival at Cambridge.
A large demonstration in Havana drew about thirty thousand participants marching through the capital. The protest against the Fordney Tariff Bill was orderly and peaceful.
The youthful director Borzage stands among top American filmmakers on merit with notable work for Triangle American and Ince studios. His Cosmopolitan hit Humoresque is praised as a premier production and his current project A Good Provider stars Vera Gordon Dove Davidson and Miriam Battista with Borzage directing. He is married to actress Rena Rodgers.
New York reports a rise in women cigarette use in public spaces from cars on trains to Fifth Avenue buses and hotels. Statistics show cafes and hotels filled with women smokers once shunned, with social progress and past arrests noted as easing prejudice.
Harvard College officers and students plan a joint congratulatory letter to ex president Woodrow Wilson for his upcoming birthday on December 28. Blue books placed around campus will gather hundreds of signatures under the Woodrow Wilson Club’s auspices.
Mme. Frederico Bufaletti says she has word the Sultan loves Tsotta Bufaletti and has two children by her. The girl’s father, Bufaletti, doubts the tale and suspects the girl drowned when the Ancona sank after being torpedoed on November 5, 1915.
Bessie Barriscale adapts The Skirt after a New York misfire. She will tour the Orpheum and Keith vaudeville circuits with a one act sketch written by Howard Hickman. Also featured are Louise Lovely in a two day sketch and Myrtle Stedman touring vaudeville as a singing act.
Gene Lowry, director and producer, plans two-reel films based on the Reddy Brant stories by W. C. Tuttle. The tales ran serially in Boy's Life Magazine, the official organ of the Boy Scouts. Lowry cites his two sons and a baby daughter as ready-made cast.
News notes from West Coast studios report Tom Mix and his former wife expect a visit from the stork. Mix has one child, a nine year old daughter.
Gaston Glass and Marguerite de la Motte received the palm as Film land's best dancers at the Hotel Ambassador in Los Angeles. Judges included Ruth Roland Wallace Reid Bryant Washburn and Art Hickman with other contestants Lila Lee Colleen Moore Sylvia Breamer Lee Moran and George Larkin.
A collage of film gossip and star mentions: Nesta Lowell Kennedy Harlan in The MBarricade, Constance Talmadge’s reading circle, Shirley Mason at 21, R F Seabrook and Wallace Reid making Across the Continent at Lasky in Hollywood with Mary MacLaren, Conrad Nagel in Forever After with Alice Brady, Betty Elliott Dexter unattached, Thomas Meighan noted Paramount, Phyllis Haver tied to Ben Turpin in Sennett comedies, A F Thomas Douglas with Free Air and Footfalls, Dorothy B of Boston story guidance, Clyde Fillmore with Ethel Clayton in Sham, and notes on schooling and discharge trends for players, with public notices to PRUNELLA HAIL.
In Attleboro on December 18 Herbert Link was hospitalized with scalp wounds and possible internal injuries after a truck driven by Thomas F. Fuller of Davis Avenue tried to pass a coupe and became wedged against a fence near the Hebronville bridge. Fuller was arrested for drunkenness and operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
Christmas carols were sung at the vesper service yesterday afternoon at King's Chapel. The male voices choir was conducted by A. Vincent Bennett. The Rev. H F E B Speight led a brief service. The chapel was crowded and the congregation included several bluejackets from Uncle Sam's warships.
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